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Baltinoran Bridge

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Baltinoran Bridge
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Single-arch masonry road bridge, erected 1849, carries the Garr to Ballinabrackey road over the River Mongagh at the boundary of Counties Offaly and Meath. Earlier eighteenth-century bridge with three smaller arches. Random rubble to earlier bridge. Arches semicircular profile. Single-arch bridge of squared limestone with rusticated quoins. Segmental profile arch with rusticated limestone voussoirs. Roughly dressed limestone spandrels. Roughly dressed coping with rounded tops. Dressed string course.
The present single-arch bridge spans the redirected river and was completed by the Board of Works as part of the Boyne drainage scheme. The earlier bridge spanned the original route of the river. The variation of building techniques and finishes of material between the different periods of construction make this bridge both architecturally and technically significant.

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